Yeah I totally get your point. You’re preaching to the choir here. Funny thing is, even if my daughter comes across anything like that, she just assumes that’s normal. There’s a show she watched where a boy had two dads, and she never even asked me why there are two dads lol. My wife got into the YouTube deepend on many topics, so it’s pretty much impossible to change her mind about pretty much anything. Any time I try to go against her in any of the parenting choices, I immediately become a ‘bad dad’. At this point I’m smuggling contraband for my daughter.

She actually grew up here, but my wife is a ‘bit’ conservative, and doesn’t want to expose our daughter to the ‘bad parts’ of the western culture. That’s fine, but too much of anything is not a good thing, and it’s causing our daughter to grow up sheltered. (for instance, Craig of the Creek used to be her favorite show a couple of years ago, but my wife found out it has some queer representation in it, and banned her from watching it. I have to pick my battles, so I can’t argue with her for every single thing). Her friends are already starting to make fun of her for how ‘ignorant’ she is on some topics. I’m in a tough spot, but trying to do the best with what cards I’ve been dealt.

Yeah the tmobile app is wonky, but at least the message and call go through regular call/sms. It’s been pretty good so far.

Thanks for the thoughts. It’s mainly to keep track of and communicate with her when she’s playing in the community and at school. My biggest concern is that she’s going to get distracted with the watch and get in trouble at school or at home.

I’ll check this out, thank you for the recommendation!

That makes total sense and gives me peace, thank you! Do you have any resources on how to handle the emotional side properly that I could learn from?

Yeah the boy told her these things, and we went to the principal with this and asked them to not punish the kid but instead give him the help he needs. Since then I’ve seen him get his own desk near the principals office and apparently he studies from there a lot. I still don’t know whether that’s good or bad, but the last we saw him there, he was waving at my daughter with a smile on his face. So he doesn’t seem to be minding it.

Thank you for the perspective. We’ve gone ahead and enrolled her in the HAG school, but I’m still concerned about her social skills, because apparently she’s only gonna interact with the same 10 15 kids every year. Hopefully she comes out in top socially as well as academically.

Thanks for the perspective! Do you ever feel like you missed out on anything because you went into this program?

Would it work if we place her in the program and pull her out after a year?

I listed them in the order it happened